Heartbreak and confrontation
Feng Jinxuan's words, "You can leave now," were like the sharpest, icy knife, piercing Yu Jinli's heart.
Then, cruelly, it turned around and shattered all her self-righteous and ridiculous love.
She watched the man's resolute and cold back, without a trace of lingering affection, and felt her already fragile heart, riddled with holes, shatter completely.
It shattered into billions of blood-stained shards of glass, never to be pieced back together.
Leave? Where can I go? Yu Jinli was at a loss.
So this is what it feels like to like someone.
She stopped crying and making a scene.
What's the use of crying and making a fuss?
Besides, it seems like I've already cried all my tears.
She simply squatted down silently and picked up the diary that the man had thrown on the ground, a diary that contained all her unbearable and heartfelt truths.
She held it tightly in her arms, as if she were holding her own long-cold, ridiculous corpse, hoping it could give her a little bit of warmth.
Just then, the living room door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
Gu Yanzhi and Yu Jinli's parents left and then returned.
Their faces all bore an undisguised look of worry.
Clearly, they had also noticed the strange atmosphere between the two at the party.
When they saw the tense and chaotic scene in the living room, their expressions changed instantly.
"Koi!"
Yuehua was the first to rush forward and tightly embrace her swaying, distraught daughter.
"Child, what's wrong? What happened? Is it...is it that bastard bullied you!"
She raised her head, and her usually gentle eyes were now burning with a mother's raging fury as she glared fiercely at the man whose back was turned to them.
Feng Jinxuan neither turned around nor spoke.
He simply walked up to the liquor cabinet and poured himself another glass of strong liquor.
Then, he drank it all in one gulp.
"Sealing the Profound!"
Yu Zhengdao also came up, his usually refined and dignified face now covered with frost.
He looked at the man who was numbing himself with alcohol, his voice deep and resonant.
"I don't care what happened between you two."
"I only have one question for you: were the tears on my daughter's face because of you?"
Feng Jinxuan's hand, gripping the wine glass, had knuckles that turned slightly white from the force.
He turned around and looked at the three members of Yu Jinli's family who regarded him as a sinner.
He looked again at the girl who was hiding in her mother's arms, crying and trembling, but who would never give him another glance.
An overwhelming emotion, a mixture of anger, jealousy, and endless pain, instantly overwhelmed all his reason.
He smiled.
He laughed self-deprecatingly and wildly.
“Yes.” He looked at them, emphasizing each word clearly, “It was me.”
"I was blind to trust such a hypocritical woman who was full of lies."
He looked at the woman in front of him, who was crying her eyes out and looked pitiful, but he felt that she was extremely hypocritical and vicious, and all that remained in his eyes was endless cold disgust.
"What did you say!" Yuehua trembled with anger, raising her hand to slap him across the face.
But Gu Yanzhi stopped him in time.
"Teacher's wife, calm down." Gu Yanzhi's voice was still gentle, but it carried a hint of undeniable strength.
He looked at Feng Jinxuan, and for the first time, a hint of disappointment appeared in his usually clear eyes.
“President Feng,” he said, “I think there might be some misunderstanding between you two.”
"Misunderstanding?" Feng Jinxuan sneered and smashed the expensive crystal glass in his hand onto the ground!
"Clang!"
A loud bang, accompanied by flying shards of glass, startled everyone.
"Is this a misunderstanding?!" He pointed at Yu Jinli, his dark eyes burning with a frenzied, almost destructive flame. "Go ask her! Ask her what her purpose was in approaching me in the first place!"
"Go ask her if she secretly sets a price for everything she says and does to me!"
"Go ask her how much her 'like' is really worth!"
Every question he posed was like a heavy hammer, striking Yu Jinli's heart hard.
The pain was so intense that she could barely breathe.
That's enough.
Yu Jinli finally broke free from her mother's arms.
She looked up, her eyes, already red and swollen from crying, gazing at him with an almost unfamiliar expression.
She offered no further explanation.
Because she knew that at the moment when trust completely collapsed, any explanation would be nothing but futile and laughable sophistry.
She looked at him, at the man she had loved and hurt.
Looking into his eyes, I saw the raging fury, and beneath that fury, hidden even deeper... pain and despair.
It's normal for someone who hurts others to get hurt in return. Yu Jinli gave a self-deprecating, bitter smile.
Suddenly, she felt exhausted. Since things had come to this, there was no need to dwell on it any longer.
"yes."
She spoke, her voice hoarse, yet exceptionally clear.
"What you said is all correct."
"From the very beginning, I only approached you for the money."
"Every word I said to you, every thing I did, was a lie."
"I have never liked you."
She used the cruelest, most self-destructive method to completely sever all his hopes and also to utterly kill her own heart, which was already riddled with holes.
Looking at her daughter's pale, distraught appearance, Yuehua felt as if all her life force had been drained from her, a sight that tugged at her heartstrings like a knife.
Without further hesitation, she stepped forward and tightly shielded her daughter behind her.
She looked at Feng Jinxuan with eyes as cold as knives.
"President Feng, you heard that."
"Since everything is just a transaction, let's settle the score now."
"The debts you paid off for the koi fish, the houses you bought, the companies you invested in... everything, we at Tianyan Pavilion will repay you double."
"From this day forward, my daughter has nothing to do with you anymore!"
“Alright.” Feng Jinxuan looked at her and smiled, a smile that was desolate and desperate. “Then… let’s make sure it’s clear.”
"Make sure you don't overlook anything."
Yu Jinli listened to their cold conversation, which sounded like a business negotiation.
I feel like a ridiculous commodity with a price tag.
She couldn't take it anymore.
She looked at the man she had loved, at the last glimmer of light in his eyes, which had been extinguished completely by her words.
She finally made up her mind.
"good."
She squeezed out a single word through gritted teeth.
The voice was as soft as a sigh, yet as heavy as a boulder, striking the hearts of everyone present.
"As you wish."
She looked at him and, word by word, clearly pronounced their final fate.
"We're even now."
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